Quotes of: Theodore-roosevelt Keyword

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

...Jesus saw the eternal in the everyday. Your last day on earth should be spent as you spent all your others-- doing your daily tasks with love and honesty... An ordinary day is, perhaps, the most holy of all.

Mary, Called Magdalene

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.

The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders

One female who knows what to do is better than a thousand males who don't. -

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our ful...

Memoirs of Cleopatra

A woman that you find different or strange, or whom you may envy or covet is deemed by you all to be a witch! Anything that you do not understand, you deem witchcraft!

The Stuart Vampire

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

The Prime Ministers of Canada

Wäre ich ein Zimmermann, würde ich dir ein Fenster zu meiner Seele zimmern. Wenn du hineinschauen würdest, sähest du dich selbst in der Scheibe gespiegelt. Und dann wüsstest du, dass meine Seele ein Spiegelbild von deiner ist.

Point of Retreat